Dancing with the Stars 10/22/2012 and 10/23/2012 (both performance shows)

Monday and Tuesday night shows this week are both the performance shows because of the Pres debate Monday night.

I loved the Team dance to Call Me Maybe. It was awesome! Deserved a perfect 30 IMO. The other team is really going to have to bring it to tie or win. I'm not sure they are capable of it.

I do not get the love for Gilles' dance. I mean, I get the love for Gilles, but I thought the routine looked like a recycled version of Edyata's dances where the guy just mostly stands there. Did he look hot, yeah, but a good dance, I didn't think so.

I liked the beginning of the group dance, but overall I thought it was not terribly strong. And I really felt that Emmitt's dance was too fast for him. He just wasn't getting the arm extensions in at all. He's a very good dancer, but that was not his best effort. But, as much as I like Kirstie, I thought she was the most overmarked by a mile. That was *not* a quickstep.

I do not get the love for Gilles' dance. I mean, I get the love for Gilles, but I thought the routine looked like a recycled version of Edyta's dances where the guy just mostly stands there. Did he look hot, yeah, but a good dance, I didn't think so.

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I spent the whole time wondering if Kevin Costner would be as wooden, if he were dancing instead.

Maybe the bad dancing is appropriate to the character of the song.

The choreography on the "Call Me Maybe" group dance was awesome. I particularly liked the transitions between the group dancing and the parts where the different couples got their highlight bits. The flow of all the dancers in and out of the performance was effortless and brilliant.

All that I heard them say about next week was that the scores (and votes) carry over.

Regarding the performances Tuesday:
I loved Shawn and Derek. Wow, what a great routine. Don't know what Len was smoking to give that routine an 8. I know Carrie Ann docked them for the 'lift' that was a 'catch', but don't get Len's score at all.